Bacterial Infections News

WASHINGTON — The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday named Anthony S. Fauci, MD, FAAP, an honorary fellow for what it called his “decades of distinguished leadership, dedication, wisdom and service to children and families.”

Antibiotic stewardship efforts are likely responsible for a substantial decline in antibiotic use in neonatal ICUs, researchers reported in JAMA Pediatrics.

More than a dozen pediatric ICUs were able to sustain reductions in blood culture rates during a 2-year period following a diagnostic stewardship effort aimed at safely improving ordering practices, researchers reported in JAMA Pediatrics.

The FDA has issued a safety alert warning patients and health care providers of a “risk of invasive, potentially fatal disease” linked to probiotic use among preterm infants in hospital settings.

Salmonella — not Streptococcus pneumoniae — was the top cause of invasive bacterial infections among children with sickle cell disease in five European countries during a recent 6-year period, a study in Pediatrics reported.

Data from a new study suggested a new standard cutoff for determining urinary tract infections in febrile children undergoing bladder catheterization, according to results published in Pediatrics.

A pediatric health care system totaled more than $250,000 in antibiotic waste over the course of 2 years — most of it on discarded antibiotics, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

A national shortage of amoxicillin led to an increase in the use of alternative agents to treat ear infections, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

More than two out of every five infection-related deaths in the Americas in 2019 were associated with bacterial antimicrobial resistance, according to a new study.

Testing children with suspected sinusitis for three species of bacteria could help cut down on antibiotic use, the results of a randomized clinical trial suggest.